Thanks for that. All over the news also and so people seem interested.
I am sure a lot of astronomers will have their spectrographic analysis underway and we might hear what the tail is made up of.
Perhaps some our own members could tell us.
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Originally Posted by billdan
A new 20Km wide comet has been seen that is 3 AU from the Sun and it appears to have come from a different star system.
Known as Comet C/2019 Q4 (Borisov) - has a hyperbolic orbit eccentricity of 3.2, based on current observation.
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-49676757 |